Is our national mainstream media basically controlled by a liberal left?

Is our national mainstream media basically controlled by a liberal left-wing bias, or is it just simply lazy? When English book-seller and writer Benjamin Harris published "Publick Occurrences, Both Forreign and Domestick," in 1690 - the first newspaper printed in the colonies - little did he realize the impact that the print media would have on the political and economic atmosphere of this young country. Harris's newspaper was suppressed by Boston authorities after one issue, and he was jailed, ostensibly because he had no license, but primarily because of alleged sedition and his views on Catholics and Quakers.

From that point, newspapers gradually became the primary advocates and disseminators of news for their chosen affiliation. But they also were the watch-dogs of government.

Fremont was no exception to the national trend. The Fremont Journal, founded in 1853, was generally regarded as a Republican/Whig publication, and the Democratic Messenger, founded in 1856, was the county organ of the Democrats. The Fremont News began in 1887 and merged with the Messenger in 1938 to form the current News-Messenger. Most mergers were because of economic conditions, not any great non-partisan agreements.

In fact, former Democratic pollster, Patrick Caddell, recently stated in an interview with Fox News, that never before has the media been so focused on creating news rather than reporting it. He believes that an institution established as a check against government has now evolved into an advocate for government and the left-wing agenda.

The trial of Philadelphia abortion doctor, Kermit Gosnell, has been moving on for sometime; the evidence and testimony presented is revolting and disturbing, but a majority of the media - especially the alphabet networks, ABC, NBC, CBS and MSNBC - have been largely in blackout mode. Reporting on the story would be hypocritical and a crushing blow to the agenda of the liberal media. How can they condemn severing the spinal cords of an infant seconds after live birth when they condone severing the spinal cords seconds before it is born. Kirsten Powers, a writer for USA Today, wrote that it is merely a matter of geography, and the belief "that one is murder and the other is legal procedure is morally irreconcilable."

Actually, the major media simply supports whatever President Obama says. In his 2014 campaign speech prepared for Planned Parenthood last week, he attacked those who believe that killing babies is a moral problem, saying that abortion is "legal, safe and rare" and a woman's basic right. It is the first time in history that an American president has praised killing born babies. He ended the speech with "God Bless You," an ignominious statement from a man whose administration has spent its entire time in power rebuking anything related to God.

With the exception of the Wall Street Journal, very few of the national media paid more than lip service to President Obama's appointment of Jack Lew as treasury secretary.

During the past election campaign, Mitt Romney was sharply criticized by Obama for his Cayman Island investments and Ugland House, calling them tax scams and an "outrage."

Mr. Lew invested in exactly the same Cayman based funds when he worked at Citigroup from 2006-08. In 2009, after Citi had received taxpayer bailouts of $45 billion in cash, Mr. Lew received almost a million dollars - $944,518.00 to be exact - in compensation for joining the Obama administration as White House Chief of Staff. No one in the broadcast media mentioned it.

In a survey a few years ago at the journalism school of my alma mater - Ohio University - 85 percent of the respondents said that they leaned to the liberal side. It begins in the teachers' lounge.

However, our country is still considered basically conservative. The conservative Wall Street Journal is the nation's number-one selling newspaper, and, according to Poll Position, a new polling company organized by 32-tear veteran and former CNN exec, Eason Jordan, Fox News is usually the top news network and has ratings MSNBC would kill for.

But Fox has been called an entertainment network by Obama, primarily because they refuse to bow when he enters the room.

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Is our national mainstream media basically controlled by a liberal left?

Is our national mainstream media basically controlled by a liberal left-wing bias, or is it just simply lazy? When English book-seller and writer Benjamin Harris published 'Publick Occurrences, Both